Meanings
present singular third person sightsees · participle present sightseeing · past sightsaw · participle past sightseen · alternative sight-see
- intransitiveTo go sightseeing; to visit places of interest in a city, town or geographical area.
It was their first time on the Continent and they sight-saw for a week in Paris […].
2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 1421 more example
The German team liked each other, ate, drank, sightsaw, sunbathed and worked their horses together. All were firmly rooting for Ludwig. A German victory was all that mattered.
1985, Jilly Cooper, Riders
Origin
Back-formation from sightseeing.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 觀光 /观光, 遊覽 /游览
- 觀光 /观光 (guānguāng)go sightseeing
- 遊覽 /游览 (yóulǎn)go sightseeing
Finnish katsella nähtävyyksiä
- katsella nähtävyyksiägo sightseeing
Japanese 見物する
- 見物する (kenbutsu suru)go sightseeing
Korean 구경하다
- 구경하다 (gugyeonghada)go sightseeing
Polish zwiedzać, zwiedzić
- zwiedzaćgo sightseeing
- zwiedzićgo sightseeing
Russian осма́тривать достопримеча́тельности
- осма́тривать достопримеча́тельности (osmátrivatʹ dostoprimečátelʹnosti)go sightseeing
Spanish visitar los lugares de interés, turismo
- visitar los lugares de interésgo sightseeing
- turismogo sightseeing
Cite this entry
sightsee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sightsee
“sightsee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sightsee. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sightsee,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sightsee.
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